{"id":1106,"date":"2014-09-19T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2014-09-19T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T14:35:11","slug":"enjoying-the-sprinkles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2014\/09\/19\/enjoying-the-sprinkles\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying The Sprinkles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just this week,\u00a0I was\u00a0encouraged to listen to a certain message via internet that had been a blessing to someone else.\u00a0This person\u00a0shared\u00a0the thought from the message on how, in the midst of deep valleys,\u00a0God\u00a0will send\u00a0\u201chandfuls of purpose\u201d as Ruth received from Boaz\u2019 servants in Ruth 2:16. You know, those little blessings that so often help get us through the day \u2013 maybe an encouraging text or card or even an answer to what we may consider a \u201csmall prayer request\u201d. I believe these little blessings are God\u2019s way of reaching out and taking our hand in the darkness. He desires to remind us that He is still here with us \u2013 He has not forsaken us \u2013 He will see us through. But, if we are not careful, we could miss those \u201chandfuls of purpose&#8221;. I guess we could liken it to an overcast day when one family member feels the first sprinkles while the rest of the family is saying, \u201cI didn\u2019t feel anything\u201d. \u00a0Before we know it, we are all caught in a big downpour. In the same way, if we <strong>desire<\/strong> to see God\u2019s hand in <strong>every<\/strong> situation in our lives, He will allow us to feel even the little drops of rain. The showers of blessing are coming, but in the meantime, enjoy the sprinkles!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>\u201c\u2026I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.\u201d\u00a0 Ezekiel 34:26<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>~ Rachel ~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just this week,\u00a0I was\u00a0encouraged to listen to a certain message via internet that had been a blessing to someone else.\u00a0This person\u00a0shared\u00a0the thought from the message on how, in the midst of deep valleys,\u00a0God\u00a0will send\u00a0\u201chandfuls of purpose\u201d as Ruth received from Boaz\u2019 servants in Ruth 2:16. You know, those little blessings that so often help get us through the day \u2013 maybe an encouraging text or card or even an answer to what we may consider a \u201csmall prayer request\u201d. I believe these little blessings are God\u2019s way of reaching out and taking our hand in the darkness. He desires to remind us that He is still here with us \u2013 He has not forsaken us \u2013 He will see us through. But, if we are not careful, we could miss those \u201chandfuls of purpose&#8221;. I guess we could liken it to an overcast day when one family member feels the first sprinkles while the rest of the family is saying, \u201cI didn\u2019t feel anything\u201d. \u00a0Before we know it, we are all caught in a big downpour. In the same way, if we desire to see God\u2019s hand in every situation in our lives, He will allow us to feel even the little drops of rain. The showers of blessing are coming, but in the meantime, enjoy the sprinkles! \u201c\u2026I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.\u201d\u00a0 Ezekiel 34:26 ~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,49,45,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-gratitude","category-praise","category-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-hQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}